Nate Berkus and His New Fabric Line at Calico Corners

Along with a new line of bed, bath & decor accents for Target, Nate Berkus recently launched a great collaboration for a fabric line at Calico Corners. He has so many inspiring prints to chose from, on display at the entrance of Calico Corners. While at my local Calico Corners (in Scottsdale) I asked if by chance Nate might make a personal appearance + book signing at the shop -- Although they said no, I am hopeful (hint hint Nate!) With so many pretty patterns from Nate's line to chose from, Calico featured a great way to display them in your home: Use fabric samples as book covers! If you don't want to cover any of your existing or old books, you can definitely thrift for old books to cover... and add a little pattern to you book shelf style. Another great way to display your fave Nate Berkus fabric samples is to frame them for wall art (see my previous Framed Fabric Wall Art post) Here's a peek around Calico Corners, here in Scottsdale plus a chance to WIN a copy of Nate's book!

Cover old books with your fave new Nate fabrics!

 

 

 

 

Great pattern to recover a pair of slipper chairs!

While at Calico Corners, check out some of their other wonderful fabric choices, including Thom Filicia and Ralph Lauren plus many others...

 

Love the mix of maze, stripes and Ikat patterns in grey + gold...

 

 

Store display

And be sure to visit Calico Corners (even online) to enter for a chance to win a copy of Nate's new book, Things That Matter. Recently, Nate revealed himself in a two part interview about the book & his life on Oprah's show, Super Soul Sunday...

 

Enter here: Calico Corners Things That Matter book Give-away

 

Things That Matter - a MUST read and book to add to your design book collection.

 See Nate's interview here: Super Soul Sunday.

Also... be sure to check out all the great Nate prints at:

  Calico Corner's Nate Berkus board on Pinterest.

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About Housing Works - Thrift & Design On A Dime

Coming up on Monday, I'll be participating in the February design bloggers link-up with Olioboard. The topic will be on Charity Causes. The Charity I chose to highlight is Housing Works. Although I am not directly affiliated with the Housing Works, Inc. organization, I wanted to share (here in Part 1 of a 2 part post) how I learned about them -- especially since I don't even live in NYC. It goes back to one of my initial blog connections when I first started blogging back in late 2009, and began my social media connections (especially on Twitter) in early 2010. I don't remember how, but I had started tweeting with Stan Williams, author of the blog, The Elegant Thrifter. We tweeted during the Academy Awards (which reminds me: we have a Twitter-versary coming up!) and I learned he had collaborated with an organization for his book called "The Find." I enjoy thrifting, but this was the first book I ever bought demonstrating the potential of trash to treasures, flea market adventures, upcycling & repurposing plus thrifting good finds... The organization Stan had collaborated with was/is called Housing Works.

Stan Williams - Author of The Find - a Housing Works collaboration

About a year or so later, Jeff and I were going up to NYC for the 911 ten year anniversary. I didn't get to meet Stan (I think he was visiting family in Kansas at the time) but I did make it a point to visit one of the 12 Housing Works Thrift Shops located throughout New York City. Zaggat reviews Housing Works Thrift as, "Tremendous finds await the patient picker at this never stagnant local chain considered the Bergdorf of thrift outfits, where browsers happen upon super-fashionable vintage and contemporary clothing and designer furniture, all tended by pleasant, unobtrusive staffers."

 

Housing Works Thrift Shop

245 W 10th St, New York, NY

(212) 352 - 1618 

What is Housing Works? Housing Works is a Non-Profit organization committed to ending the twin crises of AIDS and homelessness. Housing Works believes that all people have the right to a rich and empowering life. Housing Works raises money through donated goods at their 12 Housing Works Thrift shops locations in NYC/Brooklyn. Housing Works Thrift sells vintage and contemporary goods to fashionable bargain hunters. 100% of their proceeds fund their fight to end AIDS and homelessness (see Proceeds). Housing Works began in 1990. Housing Works Thrift launched in 1992. And last year, I learned of a charity event Housing Works holds to increase their awareness and raise funds through donations + auctions: The Design On A Dime Benefit. Since 2005, the Housing Works Design on a Dime Benefit has raised more than $2 million in support of Housing Works.

On April 25, 2013, Housing Works will present New York City’s most popular interior design annual benefit event at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea. Design on a Dime features more than 50 of the world’s top interior designers, who create unforgettable room vignettes with new merchandise, which is donated and then sold for 50 to 70 percent off retail pricing! Opening night reception is April 25: shopping preview, cocktails, hors d'oeurves, and music. For two days afterwards (April 26 + 27), it will be a public sale. Here's a peek at some of last years creative room styled vignettes...

 

Each year of the event, Housing Works invites interior designers to participate in creating rooms for auction - or "vignettes" - of donated goods... But these goods are not used garment or household donations from city dwellers. These donations come from showrooms, vendors and manufactures in the furniture design industry. The vignette items are sold through auctions. All proceeds from a silent auction benefit Housing Works Jefferson Avenue Residence, a new housing development in Brooklyn for homeless adults living with HIV/AIDS which opened in summer 2012. I learned about the Design On A Dime event - again from an online connection - a spectacular designer and heart-felt AIDS advocate in NYC named Patrick J. Hamilton.

 

New York Designer Patrick J. Hamilton with Evette Ríos, Design on a Dime Co-Chair.

Somehow, I think Patrick and I may have met somewhere for he use to live in Miami prior to moving to NYC. I had also first learned about Patrick J. Hamilton when I had blogged about Eddie Ross and the Big Window Challenge that happened at Bloomingdale's -- Patrick had won the challenge the year before Eddie did. Here is Patrick's award winning window for Bloomingdale's flagship store in New York City...

 Bloomingdale's Big Window Challenge - Winner Patrick J. Hamilton

Last year, Patrick designed a vignette from the showroom pieces he campaigned for through using Facebook. And this year, Patrick is adding in more use of Pinterest (see Patrick's 2013 Ideaboard) and a Gift Registry (see Patrick's 2013 DOAD Wishlist) to campaign for the pieces he'd like to create his vignette for the Housing Works - Design On A Dime Event. I'm very excited to see what Patrick creates this year - This is his third invite by Housing Works to participate in the event. Patrick first participated in their fundraising premiere design event in 2011. Here are some photos from Patrick's previous Housing Works DOAD vignettes...

Design on a Dime vignette 2011 by Patrick J. Hamilton

Design on a Dime vignette 2012 by Patrick J. Hamilton

 

The Housing Works Design On A Dime Benefit debuted in 2004 and has gained notoriety ever since. I'm sure as last year, it will only be continuing to grow as a successful Housing Works fund raiser to further help facilitate their goal of ending the twin crises of AIDS and homelessness. Click here to watch a video from The Editor at Large at the DOAD event . Some of the Housing Works Design on a Dime Donors include: 1stDibs.com, Arteriors Home, Ballard Designs, Bernhardt Designs, Bloomingdale's, Bungalow 5, Calvin Klein Home, Crate & Barrel, Ikea, Jonathan Adler, Joss & Main, Nest Interiors, One Kings Lane, Ralph Lauren, Scalamandre, Seren & Lily, West Elm, Williams-Sonoma Home, V&M (Vintage Modern), and Z Gallerie -- just to name a few. See more donors here: Donors -- Housing Works. Some of its incredible sponsors have included: House Beautiful, Homegoods, Traditional Home, Veranda, Valspar and Elle Decor. Some of the events celebrity attendees have included Iman, Charlotte Moss, Genevieve Gorder, Andy Cohen, Alex McCord and... Nate Berkus! 

 

Charloette Moss

 

Iman

 Nate Berkus (2011) says “Many New Yorkers know Housing Works as a great thrift store. But, their mission is a serious one, providing care and community for those suffering with HIV/AIDS. I am honored to join them for Design on a Dime, to raise funds and awareness for the good work they do.”

I didn't realize it, but even one of my favorite thrift makeover mavens is a chairperson for the Design On A Dime Event: The Dumpster Diva and Fab Flea Finder herself - Lara Spencer. Lara holds charity “Taste Maker Tag Sales” of her vintage finds on the website One Kings Lane and donates all profits to Housing Works, a non-profit that helps those living with HIV/Aids. Lara says the Housing Works Design on a Dime Event "is as big as The Oscars."

 

Lara Spencer with ABC's Sam Champion and HGTV's Sabrina Soto at Design On A Dime 2012.

Since I personally LOVE using Pinterest to collect furnishings and then apply them to online design boards for projects using Olioboard, I thought this would be a good opportunity to demonstrate this wonderful cause + event during the Olioboard February Charity Causes link-up (which will be Part 2 of this post). I hope you'll join me Monday, plus the other 9 design bloggers -- as they each share their use of Olioboard to to support their charity causes.

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Take A Seat: Thrifty Chair Finds

Two of the fun things about thrifting here in Arizona are the "Sales" happening  every other weekend at Goodwill and the actual 'home store' they created. The home store that I frequently pop into is on Old Scottsdale Road called Goodwill ReDesign. It's not all donated goods - you can actually find brand new items at discounted prices in the Goodwill ReDesign store. The good feature about it is that it focuses only on homegoods like lamps, dishes, brick-a-brac, pillows and furniture - so you don't have to wade through the sea of people that sometimes crowd the apparel racks. Yesterday, while out on a day-date with my Valentine, we popped into the Goodwill ReDesign store after lunch. With the donated goods, it's hit or miss - you never know what you're going to find (just like at any thrift store). Yesterday, I spotted this interesting chair pair - for dirt cheap - and decided to go for one of the two....

 

The pair, although not an exact match, work well together because of their size and same cushion cover pattern...

 

Total score at only $9.99... 

and by the way: 

The Goodwill ReDesign Stores here in AZ 

will be having a Presidents Day Weekend Sale: 20% off ticketed price!

 Although the chair I picked up yesterday isn't for a particular project, it was too cute to pass up for a possible future project: Could be a great chair for a desk, a dressing table, or a little girls room, painted & recovered black, white, or pink...

 

Of the two chairs I spotted at Goodwill ReDesign, I went with the more transitional chair (above) and left the other more detailed chair (below) for some other thrifter to score...

Besides the Goodwill ReDesign Store, the Salvation Army Family Thrift Store can also have some good finds. Another good chair find I actually saw while visiting the hubs this week in Casa Grande, AZ I spotted in Salvation Army...

 

These slipper chairs at the Salvation Army Family Thrift Store (in Casa Grande) have great bones and vintage character to add to a space - especially a sitting area in a bedroom. Since the chairs were only $68.50 - their makeover could include a splurge on fabric, like this great print from the new Nate Berkus Collection at Calico Corners... (they too are having a sale this weekend: 25% off fabrics!)

An alternative to thrift, and still less expensive than an antique shop or vintage store is shopping consignment. One place up in Phoenix I've passed by on my way to Sweet Salvage on 7th Ave or the Salvation Army is a place called Turtles Treasures Consignment...

 

Note: those stripes aren't just painted onto the wicker: it comes from three different strands (brown, black, white) woven together... How COOL is that?

And although I shared this chair find the other day (I scored for my doctor office make-over project) I came across an image from York Wall-Coverings featuring a similar chair, but with the finish I envisioned for its transformation...

 

Chair find I scored at ReCreate Consignment - Scottsdale for $50.

 

York Wallcoverings - Chair transformation vision for my project.

This weekend, show some local-love for these thrfty sources...

Salvation Army Thrift Store

(location I visit more often than Casa Grande) 

725 W Indian School Road

Phoenix, AZ

(602) 788-9355 

Goodwill ReDesign Store
2115 N Scottsdale Rd  

Scottsdale, AZ 85257

(480) 425-8062

Turtle's Treasures Consignment
2133 E Indian School Rd 

Phoenix, AZ 85016

(602) 374 - 8217

ReCreate Consignment & Staging

4390 North Miller Rd . Suite 101/102

Scottsdale, AZ, 85251

(480) 607-5161

Goodwill ReDesign Store
2115 N Scottsdale Rd  

Scottsdale, AZ 85257

(480) 425-8062

 Just a little map showing some of the terrain I'm driving here in AZ...

I live at "A" - The Salvation Army I went to in Casa Grande is "D" - "H", "G", "I", "E", and "F", are some of the consignment & thrift stores I frequent in Phoenix & Scottsdale... The grid shows civilization - the green is more mountainous... and the flat white areas... desert.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Go out and get your THRIFT on!

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